I have trouble with direction, because I have trouble with authority. I was not a good Marine.
That's the great thing about plankton. It pretty much keeps to itself. - Gene Hackman
That's the great thing about plankton. It pretty much keeps to itself.
- Gene Hackman
Like a duck on the pond. On the surface everything looks calm, but beneath the water those little feet are churning a mile a minute. - Gene Hackman
Like a duck on the pond. On the surface everything looks calm, but beneath the water those little feet are churning a mile a minute.
Seventy-five per cent of being successful as an actor is pure luck. The rest is just endurance. - Gene Hackman
Seventy-five per cent of being successful as an actor is pure luck. The rest is just endurance.
Don't piss in my ear and tell me it's raining. - Gene Hackman
Don't piss in my ear and tell me it's raining.
I was trained to be an actor, not a star. I was trained to play roles, not to deal with fame and agents and lawyers and the press. - Gene Hackman
I was trained to be an actor, not a star. I was trained to play roles, not to deal with fame and agents and lawyers and the press.
I do not like assassins, or men of low character. - Gene Hackman
I do not like assassins, or men of low character.
Dysfunctional families have sired a number of pretty good actors. - Gene Hackman
Dysfunctional families have sired a number of pretty good actors.
It really costs me a lot emotionally to watch myself on-screen. I think of myself, and feel like I'm quite young, and then I look at this old man wit… - Gene Hackman
It really costs me a lot emotionally to watch myself on-screen. I think of myself, and feel like I'm quite young, and then I look at this old man wit…
If you look at yourself as a star, you've already lost something in the portrayal of any human being. - Gene Hackman
If you look at yourself as a star, you've already lost something in the portrayal of any human being.
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